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Punishment's place

The local concentration of mass incarceration

Bibliographic Data

ID9685044
AuthorsRobert J Sampson (0000-0003-4259-8146, American Academy of Nursing, corresponding author), Charles Loeffler (0000-0001-7712-6734, International Society of Differentiation)
Year2010
Volume139
Issue3
Pages20-31
Publication date2010-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDaedalus (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192
PublisherMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/daed_a_00020
PMID21032947
OpenAlexW2056149610
LanguageEN
Citations received153
References cited12

American crime policy took an unexpected turn in the latter part of the twenty-first century, entering a new penal regime. From the 1920s to the early 1970s, the incarceration rate in the United States averaged 110 inmates per 100,000 persons. This rate of incarceration varied so little in the United States and internationally that many scholars believed the nation and the world were experiencing a stable equilibrium of punishment.1 But beginning in the mid-1970s, the U.S. incarceration rate accelerated dramatically, reaching the unprecedented rate of 197 inmates per 100,000 persons in 1990 and the previously unimaginable rate of 504 inmates per 100,000 persons in 2008.2 Incarceration in the United States is now so prevalent that it has become a normal life event for many disadvantaged young men, with some segments of the population more likely to end up in prison than attend college.3 Scholars have broadly described this national phenomenon as mass incarceration.4

Criminology · Mass incarceration · Political science · Prison · Punishment (psychology · Sociology · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Social Psychology

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